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Dell VxRail vs. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Dell VxRail

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AThe Dell VxRail is a VMWare-based hyper-converged infrastructure appliance.N/A

    Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ANutanix in San Jose, California offers their software-defined Enterprise Cloud as a hyper-converged infrastructure solution. The Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure solution combines the Nutanix Acropolis virtualization solution, Nutanix AHV hypervisor (though Acropolis works with other hypervisors), Prism cluster manager, Nutanix Calm and Nutanix Flow server management, and is available on the Nutanix NX series of server hardware appliances, as well as third-party OEM appliances.N/A
    Pricing
    Dell VxRailNutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Dell VxRailNutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Dell VxRailNutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Considered Both Products
    Dell Technologies
    Chose Dell VxRail
    All of these solutions scored very close together in our testing. Nutanix actually was the highest scoring in ease-of-use, but the integration with Vmware and the pricepoint led us to choose VxRail.
    Incentivized
    Nutanix
    Chose Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    We've decided to go for both VxRail and Nutanix AOS to make sure we can get the best deals from both sides. I appreciate this may not be a path most companies can go down, but always good to have a bit of healthy competition between vendors to ensure you're getting the best …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    I've been a big Nimble fan and would consider it if I was deploying in a green field site (it always comes down to price of course).
    Nutanix are an existing supplier so for now it makes the choice easier.
    We did look at VxRail but again for the VDI solution Nutanix won out.
    Incentivized
    Chose Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    VxRail would have incurred extra costs that were not apparent in the original presentations from suppliers.
    Incentivized
    Chose Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    They're on par with each other but it seems like management prefers Nutanix.
    Incentivized
    Chose Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Nutanix AOS is ​​very easy to scale up
    Incentivized
    Chose Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    When we first bought Nutanix in 2016, vSan wasn't nearly as robust an HCI solution as Nutanix was. We evaluated VxRail in 2018 when we were buying our all-flash Nutanix cluster. vSan on VxRail has made significant improvements in that time but we felt Nutanix still offered …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Infrastructure capabilities:
    - Different hypervisors and therefore not tied to a single hypervisor for future choices.
    - Converting the cluster into another hypervisor - no data migration.
    Incentivized
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Dell VxRailNutanix Cloud Infrastructure
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (75 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    8.5
    (51 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (54 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
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    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    5.2
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    5.2
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    5.2
    (2 ratings)